Student of the Month Skaare wants to 'learn and care every day'

Nov. 21, 2012

Levi Skaare

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Levi Skaare

Much like astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, 18-year-old Levi Skaare is driven by two main philosophies: “Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.”

“Tyson’s quote has significance in not only my life, but in everyone else’s as well,” Skaare wrote in his narrative essay. “Learn and care every day, because when one looks back, the distance that has been traveled is quite amazing. I feel like that every day, and I am thankful for everything I’ve experienced in these short eighteen years.”

Third in his class, Skaare is a member of the National Honor Society, Knowledge Bowl and Student Council. He also plays cello in the school orchestra and is on the varsity soccer and track and field teams.

Skaare volunteers his time as a tutor and for Habitat for Humanity. He’s very involved with Lauren Project, a volunteer program he had participated in with Manuel Reyes, who tragically died in a car accident early this year.

Through the Lauren Project, he helps students with their math after school.

“From that moment on (Manuel’s death), I wanted to continue his kindness, his legacy of caring,” Skaare wrote. “ ... easing the suffering of others seems to calm one’s own suffering at the same time.”